This blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?".
The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...

Monday, June 23, 2014

World Cup '74 Portrait #89 (Wolfgang Kleff: West Germany)

graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm

By a curious coincidence indeed, following on from the previous
portrait, the next & this latest subject to be randomly chosen depicts
another of what proved to be the 1974 World Cup’s reserve goalkeepers in the
form of Wolfgang Kleff, of West Germany, who, like Poland’s Zygmunt Kalinowski,
failed to get any minutes of tournament action, although was included for
selection in both the FKS & Panini sticker albums, the latter of these
providing the source image from which the drawing has come to be processed:
just admire that hairstyle, & the iconic sky blue button-up adidas
tracksuit top sported by the West Germans at the World Cup, having been
premiered (or so photographic history seems to suggest) at the 1972 European Nations’
Cup finals.